Re: [hatari-devel] AVI recording crash (was: Issue reports on Hatari v1.8.0)

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>]

Am Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:52:13 +0300
schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
> 
> On tiistai 12 elokuu 2014, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > > Now, if the user switches to fullscreen, or if the atari program
> > > changes the resolution, that pointer might not be valid anymore.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we should just stop avi recording when the resolution
> > > changes?
> > 
> > Yes, a copy is made at start as it's not expected to change during
> > recording (except if windows changes as in fullscreen)
> > 
> > Another possibility could be to always use "sdlscrn" directly each
> > time "AviParams.Surface" is used ; but I'm not sure it would still
> > work in fullscreen, as height and width can change in that case.
> > 
> > So yes, maybe it's better to stop avi recording when resolution
> > changes.
> 
> Resolution doesn't change just by user action.
> 
> For example many Falcon demos change Videl resolution many times,
> some of them may do it even many times per second.

Sure, but I doubt that this ever worked with AVI video recording. Or
does the AVI video format support resolution changes inbetween?

 Thomas